My general distaste for the first two albums isn't because I don't really like Di'Anno. I don't, but he definitely suited the music at the time. It's just that I just don't care enough for the music itself either way on the whole. Those who know what I listen to most of the time shouldn't be too surprised that I don't really care for the whole punk/metal hybrid thing. A lot of the material is fun live and fun to play, but there's maybe only 5 songs from the first 2 albums combined I really, genuinely like. That being said, Phantom of the Opera is one of my favorite Maiden songs.

I share in the general hate for No Prayer, as shown by my ranking. That being said, I think Fear of the Dark gets a bad rep. If they would've shaved the album down to be this:

01.Be Quick or Be Dead
02.Judas be My Guide
03.Afraid to Shoot Strangers
04.Childhood's End
05.Wasting Love
06.The Fugitive
07.Chains of Misery
08.Fear of the Dark

...I would love it. I think there's some really great and underrated material on the disc, it's just obstructed by 4 of the absolute biggest clunkers Maiden have ever written (From Here to Eternity, Fear is the Key, The Apparition, Weekend Warrior).

Apart from "Be Quick or Be Dead" I hate everything about that album. My least favorite songs on it are everyone else's favorites (ATSS & FOTD). That album disgusted me so much I stopped listening to Iron Maiden for five years.

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I agree with Indestructible in that it would be cool if Maiden re-recorded the first two albums with Bruce. I have a bootleg of when Bruce barely joined the band, and they play almost all the songs on the first two albums, and it sounds great. Twilight Zone, Purgatory, and others all sounded cool with Bruce on vocals. I wouldn't rate those albums so low though...

They tried that with "Prowler '88" and "Charlotte the Harlot '88." The results were awful.

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1. Powerslave
2. Number of the Beast
3. Somewhere In Time
4. Brave New World
5. Seventh Son
6. Piece of Mind
7. A Matter of Life and Death
8. The Final Frontier
9. The X Factor
10. Dance of Death
11. Iron Maiden
12. Fear of the Dark
13. Killers
14. No Prayer For the Dying
15. Virtual XI

1. Somewhere in Time
2. Brave New World
3. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
4. The Number of the Beast
5. Powerslave
6. Piece of Mind
7. A Matter of Life and Death
8. Killers
9. Fear of the Dark
10. The Final Frontier
11. The X Factor
12. No Prayer for the Dying
13. Iron Maiden
14. Dance of Death
15. Virtual XI